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Krebs on Security
• BrianKrebs
Hackers linked to Russia's military intelligence units are using known flaws in older Internet routers to mass harvest authentication tokens from Microsoft Office users, security experts warned today. The spying campaign allowed state-backed Russian hackers to quietly siphon authentication tokens from users on more than 18,000 networks without deploying any malicious software or code.
Dwarkesh Podcast
• Dwarkesh Patel
The true story of Einstein, Newton, and Darwin
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• Cory Doctorow
Troy Hunt
• Troy Hunt
This week, more time than I'd have liked to spend went on talking about the trials of chasing invoices. This is off the back of a customer (who, for now, will remain unnamed), who had invoices stacking back more than 6 months overdue and despite payment terms of
Entropic Thoughts
• kqr
Many of you get notified of new articles via RSS, and some of you stay tuned through the email newsletter. The email subscribers have, in the past three weeks, answered a survey on their understanding of maths topics. I asked three questions of increasing difficulty:
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• Cory Doctorow
Release: datasette-ports 0.2
- No longer requires Datasette - running
uvx datasette-portsnow works as well.- Installing it as a Datasette plugin continues to provide the
datasette portscommand.
Tags: datasette
Release: scan-for-secrets 0.3
- New
-r/--redactoption which shows the list of matches, asks for confirmation and then replaces every match withREDACTED, taking escaping rules into account.- New Python function
redact_file(file_path: str | Path, secrets: list[str], replacement: str = "REDACTED") -> int.
Tags: projects
Tool: Cleanup Claude Code Paste
Super-niche tool this. I sometimes copy prompts out of the Claude Code terminal app and they come out with a bunch of weird additional whitespace. This tool cleans that up.
Tags: tools, claude-code
Release: datasette-ports 0.1
Another example of README-driven development, this time solving a problem that might be unique to me.
I often find myself running a bunch of different Datasette instances with different databases and different in-development plugins, spreads across dozens of different terminal windows - enough that I frequently lose them!
Now I can run this:
datasette install datasette-ports
datasette ports
And get a list of every running instance that looks something like this:
http://127.0.0.1:8333/ - v1.0a26
Databases: data
Plugins: datasette-enrichments, datasette-enrichments-llm, datasette-llm, datasette-secrets
http://127.0.0.1:8001/ - v1.0a26
Databases: creatures
Plugins: datasette-extract, datasette-llm, datasette-secrets
http://127.0.0.1:8900/ - v0.65.2
Databases: logs
Tags: datasette
Krebs on Security
• BrianKrebs
An elusive hacker who went by the handle "UNKN" and ran the early Russian ransomware groups GandCrab and REvil now has a name and a face. Authorities in Germany say 31-year-old Russian Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin headed both cybercrime gangs and helped carry out at least 130 acts of computer sabotage and extortion against victims across the country between 2019 and 2021.
Martin Alderson
• Martin Alderson
AI compute demand is growing exponentially while supply constraints bite hard. The next 18-24 months are going to be defined by shortages, rationing and price discovery.
From anonymized U.S. ChatGPT data, we are seeing:
- ~2M weekly messages on health insurance
- ~600K weekly messages [classified as healthcare] from people living in “hospital deserts” (30 min drive to nearest hospital)
- 7 out of 10 msgs happen outside clinic hours
— Chengpeng Mou, Head of Business Finance, OpenAI